Another summer reading suggestion for you this mid-August Friday: The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glasser. While set during the five days leading up to Christmas, this fun, family story will work nicely for a summer reading assignment. Five siblings, two parents, and a grouchy landlord make for one stressful week. The kids are determined to win over their landlord so they don’t have to move, the parents are busy packing and sad about having to move, and the landlord is mostly a mystery, until the kids finally break through his tough shell. Set in a New York City neighborhood, the novel has older Sesame Street vibes for its friendliness (landlord excepted), busy-ness, and neighborliness. The day to day struggles of the kids, the ideas for winning over the landlord, and everything that goes wrong, will surely give readers enough to write about and finally finish that summer reading. Fans of the book will be happy to know it’s the first in a series of seven. Enjoy!